He shouldn't be playing ANY games....he shouldn't be trying to put ANYONE his party or not in a "lose-Lose" situation, it demeans his position, makes him look petty as hell. He needs to be a leader, and this is NOT how you do that.

I agree, and this has been a recurring problem for him, all the way back to when he stooped to getting into a tit-for-tat with Sarah Palin, which should have been Biden's job, during his first election campaign, simultaneously making her more important and demeaning himself.

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I agree, and this has been a recurring problem for him, all the way back to when he stooped to getting into a tit-for-tat with Sarah Palin, which should have been Biden's job, during his first election campaign, simultaneously making her more important and demeaning himself.

Obama just doesn't know how to properly pick fights. Instead of dealing with people who actually matter he actually takes the time and effort to deal with birthers, Fox News, gun nuts, and whatnot. They aren't worth his time or attention.

I had a feeling he was going to be like this when he called the police up in New England stupid for their actions, and then has the Beer Summit.....that was simply *a head shaker* At the time I thought...well, he is new at this, very little experience, so maybe he just overstepped his place. Little did I know.....

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I will read the speech afterwards....will be more of the same, nothing new, no actual policy to speak of....same song, different verse. *shakes head*

Don't even bother reading it. It was literally the same stuff as always. Literally.

I was having a serious case of deja vu.

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I don't like how USA portray Godzilla. Godzilla is a good man and kind man. Why can't Americans see this?

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I don't like how USA portray Godzilla. Godzilla is a good man and kind man. Why can't Americans see this?

I am using Walmart as an example of companies that pay like crap, not saying they would pay every single person in the US to get them to 9 bucks. That being said their is alot of people who work 40 hour weeks that get paid minimum wage who still get government subsidies such as food stamps and welfare because they below the poverty line, why should the tax payer pay for Walmart(or anybody else) to cheaply pay for somebody's services.

Walmart's employees receive $2.66 billion in government help every year, or about $420,000 per store. They are also the top recipients of Medicaid in numerous states. Why does this occur? Walmart fails to provide a livable wage and decent healthcare benefits, costing U.S. taxpayers an annual average of $1.02 billion in healthcare costs. This direct public subsidy is being given to offset the failures of an international corporate giant who shouldn’t be shifting part of its labor costs onto the American taxpayers.

Basically if Walmart has to increase prices on a bottle of shampoo 10 cents so be it, stop using the government to fund your business(I generally try shop at places that pay their employees properly so it won't hurt me) and pay your employees a liveable wage

Tried watching it but fell asleep half-way through since it gets boring watching the President go through talking points he's gone over before and watching the audience cheer after every five words.

It was ridiculous how they stood up after every regurgitated talking point he spewed. I'm so tired of both the Republicans and the Democrats.

I don't even know why I tuned in. At least I turned it off after the first 4 minutes.

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I don't like how USA portray Godzilla. Godzilla is a good man and kind man. Why can't Americans see this?

I ate dinner through the first 10-15 minutes. Took another 10-15 of actually watching to fall asleep. Watching the SOTU is like taking an Ambien, guaranteed to cause drowsiness and restful sleep.

That's an almost identical situation I was in.

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I don't like how USA portray Godzilla. Godzilla is a good man and kind man. Why can't Americans see this?

Didn't even watch it...don't care what he has to say anymore. He won't do it and Congress won't let him do it. It can be anything...just insert something.

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You know how many people on welfare work FT jobs at minimum wage. Who would you rather have pay them welfare or Walmart?

While I agree it's about time for a wage increase, not right now...the economy is too fragile. I don't get why these loon leftists think raising taxes and now raising the minimum wage during a recession is going to help the limping economy. An extra few cents an hour won't even help the workers pay the fine for not having health insurance under Obamcare that they can't afford anyways. I really want this country to just collapse and start over.

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"You can leave a penny, you can't take a penny. You can leave a penny anytime. You have to spend $10 to take a penny. Store policy."
"Since when has this been store policy?"
"Uh, since my boss made up the policy. You gonna pay? You're holding up my line of one other person. You can't afford your milk, step aside. What, daddy didn't give you enough milk money? Little baby gonna cry about it? Just step aside."And that is how Uncle Ben dies.

While I agree it's about time for a wage increase, not right now...the economy is too fragile. I don't get why these loon leftists think raising taxes and now raising the minimum wage during a recession is going to help the limping economy. An extra few cents an hour won't even help the workers pay the fine for not having health insurance under Obamcare that they can't afford anyways. I really want this country to just collapse and start over.

A 9 dollar minimum wage means 3500K more a year to a full time worker on minimum wage, that's money we can either cut in welfare programs or that most likely will be spent stimulating the economy(assuming the min wage earner doesn't use welfare programs). You can't tell me their is some wrong when a Company that earns over 15B a year profit pays it's employees so bad that they drain 2.7B out of welfare programs from the Government(tax payers)

As for Tax increase, this country needs to work on infrastructure programs. Infrastructure = jobs. You need to get the money somewhere. Their is alot of tax loopholes that are being abused that won't hurt the majority of US citizens that if you close you can raise some cash

Actually, I think what he proposed on immigration reform was very positive and is very doable given the current political climate. Also, his proposals to push pre-school education and using federal aide to refocus community colleges to even partner with high schools were very intriguing ideas to me and, again, seem like common sense for all sides.

As for one moment that I think rips away through any cynicism...

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If you notice, especially after the clip ended, Boehner is crying. That really actually pisses me off. He sees all these families who's lives were hurt or ruined by gun violence and he'll cry for them. But he won't lift a damn finger to try and stop it in the future. That is so pathetic.

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